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Creed and Alterbridge guitarist Mark Tremonti set for Belfast

American metal band Tremonti announce a headline show at The Limelight 2, Belfast on 14th June 2016.

Formed by Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum guitarist and singer Mark Tremonti, Mark continues to wholeheartedly commit himself to his craft, barely drawing a breath for air in between his eponymous band, Alter Bridge, and Creed.

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Following tours supporting his critically acclaimed 2012 solo debut, All I Was, and Alter Bridge’s chart-topping Fortress, Mark immediately began writing in his Orlando Studio at the top of 2014. Joined by longtime guitarist Eric “Erock” Friedman, drummer Garrett Whitlock, and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen—a studio first—Tremonti penned more than twenty-five songs over the course of multiple sessions.

Emerging from the most prolific period of his two-decade career, Tremonti delivers successive albums—Cauterize and Dust—on his Fret12 Records with production by Michael “Elvis” Baskette [Alter Bridge/Slash]. With Cauterize leading the charge in summer 2015 and Dust following in 2016 the one-two punch of modern thrash and melody that has become the group’s signature fuels this engine, but Tremonti tweaks it with a polyrhythmic jackhammer at just the right moments. As a result, the music stands at a crossroads between timeless metal, infectious hard rock, and progressive pummeling.